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Independent journalist Nir Rosen writes a mea culpa in Salon to again apologize for his Lara Logan tweets. He reiterates that he didn't know she'd been sexually assaulted, or that the attack was so severe, but says "there is no excuse for what I wrote" and that he hopes "Logan and other victims of sexual violence will one day forgive me for my terrible mistake." At another point, he adds this: "Had Logan been a non-white, non-famous journalist, this story would have never made it to the news."

When he wrote the tweets, Rosen said he had been frustrated with the US media coverage out of Cairo and figured that Logan—as Anderson Cooper did before her—would become the central story for Americans. That frustration fed into his "gallows humor" tweets, which were an attempt to provoke his Twitter friends into a discussion. They don't "reflect who I am," he writes. "I hope that people will take time to read my work and understand that I have spent my career taking a lot of heat for defending victims of all kinds, not just Arabs and Muslims." Click for the full column.

Quite frankly I do not feel sorry for either of them. He knew what he did was wrong and is trying to be a bitch and wants forgiveness. She knew what could happen to her over there but she went anyway and look what happened. They do not value women as equals as most Americans do. I mean for the love of god I am no sexist but this is how I personally feel,"Hey congrats you were sexually assaulted and beaten, you kew the risks going in and now the media is hovering over this like Watergate or the "Balloon Boy." Lets get some actual news going here instead of a sob-stories like this.

czechwizard

Feb 18, 2011 4:16 AM CST

Stop it, pussy machoman ! Repent ! Now you have to purchase the Sixth Gospel franchise to enthrone darkness triumphant. I'm the dubbed Czech Hollywood Warrior Priest from Serious Entertainment, your last resort, Rosen. Or, in other words, I'm your cradle of filth so that you can come out clean, guilt-free. Dig it ! ?